Bruce Schneier talking: for most people, it’s pretty impossible to protect yourself online. The problem is, we don’t actually know the details of what exactly … Undermining the Very Fabric of the InternetRead more
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Climate Change Displaces 35,000 Walruses in Alaska An estimated 35,000 walruses have gathered on a beach in northwest Alaska as their natural resting grounds vanish … NewsRead more
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The Five NSA Programs You Should Know About
It’s been a little over a year since revelations from Edward Snowden’s historic NSA leak started appearing in newspapers around the world, and information about … The Five NSA Programs You Should Know AboutRead more
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GCHQ Manipulates Online Poll Results, Tracks Skype Users
According to new documents released by Glenn Greenwald and FirstLook.org (provided by none other than by the “Boy-Who-Must-Not-be-Named” as far as the NSA is concerned),the … GCHQ Manipulates Online Poll Results, Tracks Skype UsersRead more
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Online manipulation, Facebook, YouTube
GCHQ has developed a toolkit of software programs used to manipulate online traffic, infiltrate users’ computers and spread select messages across social media sites including … Online manipulation, Facebook, YouTubeRead more
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Obama says the world’s servers are ours
Global governments, the tech sector, and scholars are closely following a legal flap in which the US Justice Department claims that Microsoft must hand over … Obama says the world’s servers are oursRead more
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We shouldn’t expect Facebook to behave ethically
There are two interesting lessons to be drawn from the row about Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study. The first is what it tells us about Facebook’s … We shouldn’t expect Facebook to behave ethicallyRead more
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Facebook’s dark secrets
If Facebook were a country, something its founder Mark Zuckerberg has blogged about, its 1.3bn active users would make it the second largest in the … Facebook’s dark secretsRead more
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Facebook: More Powerful Than the NSA?
This past March, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg displayed a public outcry over the National Security Agency’s (NSA) government surveillance program, stating that “the … Facebook: More Powerful Than the NSA?Read more